Nut-lock.



A. B. GDNN. NUT LOCK.

APPLICATION FILED 1111:1339, 190B.

Patented Nov. 3, 1908.

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lair n s Arne ARCH-IE B. CONN, OF GANS. PENNSYLVANIA.

NUT-LOCK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 3, 1908.

Application filed June 30, 1908. Serial No. $41,102.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, ARC-HIE. B. CONN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Gans,

in the county of Fayette and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and use fUl' IIQPI'OVGIIIGIIl/S in N ut-Locks and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,

clear, and exact description of the invention,.

such aswill enable others skilled in the art to which. it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in nut locks and it isan" object of the invention to provide a novel device of this character wherein the nut or bur is frictionall engaged by an element carried by the b0 t for holding the nut or bur against rotation on the bolt under normal condi- It is also an objectof the invention to revide a novel device of this character w 'ch will be simple in construction, efficient and advantageous in practice and comparat1 vely. nexpensive to manufacture.

With the above and other objects in view the invention consistsin the details of construction and in the novel arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter more particularly referred to. l g

In describing'the invention in detail reference will be had to. the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification Wherein'like characters of reference denote correspondingparts inthe several views, and in-wluch,

Figure 1 is a viewpart in section and partly in elevation of a ho t and nut illustratin the invention. Fi' 2 is a view similar to 1g. 1, the sectional e being at right angles to that in Fig. 1. 3 is a cross sectional .vieW 'taken through the nut and bolt beneath the spring to illustrate th prongs of the spring in detail.

. In, the drawings 1 denotes a bolt which a I *may be of any ordinary or preferred construction, in the present in stanceillustrated asia railroad bolt. The free end ortion of the threadedshank is provided'wit i a longitudinally arrangedrecess ,2 having secured adjacent its outer end the endportion of-a flat spring 3 which projects inwardly and u 'wardlyof the recess. This spring 3 is he d' oranchored to the bolt 1 by a in 4', which" has its head 5 counter-sunk so t at the head will hold the threadedengagementtherewith; of a spring within the recess secured at one end to the bolt, the free end of said'spring terminating in pron s' extending in the direction'of movement 0 the nut when being applied to the bolt.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

, ARCHIE B. GONNe Witnesses J. A. HERTZOG,

LUCY G. HERTZOG. 

